From Doctor to Healer

The Transformative Journey

Robbie Davis-Floyd (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

293 Seiten

1998
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-2519-8 (ISBN)

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From Doctor to Healer

Robbie Davis-Floyd, Gloria St. John

1998

Buch | Softcover

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Why train for seven years in Western ways and then move to homoeopathy and Chinese medicine? This book traces the transformational journeys of 40 American physicians who have made this move, outlining the basic models of American health care - technocratic, humanistic and holistic - on the way.

ROBBIE DAVIS-FLOYD is a research fellow at the University of Texas, Austin, and a medical anthropologist. She is the author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage and co-editor of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots. GLORIAST. JOHN has been involved in the business end of health care for 25 years and has served as executive director of the MetaPhysicians.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.1998
Zusatzinfo	4 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick, NJ
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
ISBN-10	0-8135-2519-5 / 0813525195
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-2519-8 / 9780813525198
Zustand	Neuware